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ADAM AND EVE. 

God made the sun, the moon, the 
stars, the earth, the sea and all the 
beasts, birds, insects, plants and fishes. 
After that He made man, then woman. 
Adam was the first man, Eve the first 
woman. He planted a lovely gar- 
den and j^ave it to Adam and Eve 
to live in. There was every kind of 
luscious fruits in this garden and 
God was willing* they should eat all 
but one ; this He told them they must 
not even touch. 

For a Avhile they minded God and 
were happy, but one day they both 
ate some of this fruit. Then God 
was very angry and sorry for what 
they had done. He drove them out 
of the lovely garden forever. 






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CAIN AND ABEL. 

Adam and Eve had two sons, Cain 
and Abel. Cain, when he got old 
enough, became a farmer, Abel a 
shepherd. They both brought gifts 
to God. Cain's gift was fruit ; Abel's 
gift was the very best of his lambs. 
For some reason God liked Abel's 
gift, but did not like Cain's. This 
made Cain hate Abel so much that 
he killed him. 

When God asked Cain what had be- 
come of his brother he said: "I know 
not: Am I my brother's keeper?" 
But God, who sees everything, had 
seen what Cain had done and pun- 
ished him by making him wauder 
homeless and friendless over all the 
earth. 




CAIN AND ABEL. 



THE FLOOD. 

A great many years after Cain 
killed Abel — over a thousand per- 
haps — the people had grown to be 
so very wicked that God made up his 
mind to destroy them by a great flood. 
But there was one good old man Noah, 
whom God loved. So He had him 
build a huge boat or ark and told him 
to put into it all his own family, and 
two of every kind of animal on the 
earth. As soon as Noah had done 
th i s, th e rain began to fall. It kept on 
raining for forty days and forty 
nights until everything was coa ered 
by the water, even the highest moun- 
tains. Nothing was saved except 
what was in the ark. 




ENTERING THE ARK. 



BABEL. 

After Noah's death, his sons and 
their families kept traveling west- 
ward. By and by they came to a 
beautiful plain. They were very tired 
of traveling, so they rested a long time. 
The plain pleased them so much that 
they thought they would like to live 
there always, and they began to build 
a great city and a high tower "whose 
top should reach unto Heaven." God 
came down to see the city and the tower. 
The sight made him angry and at 
once he caused the workmen to speak 
different languages, so they could 
not understand one another and had 
to stop building. The tower is called 
Babel because God "did there con- 
found the language of all the earth." 



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LOT'S FLIGHT FROM SODOM. 

Lot lived in Sodom, a city so wicked 
that not ten good men could be found 
there. One evening- two angels came 
to Lot, to tell him that God was going 
to destroy the wicked city and to warn 
him to flee in the morning with his 
wife and daughters. Lot and his 
family heeded the angel's warning and 
fled to Zoar, a city near by. Then God 
rained down fire and brimstone upon 
Sodom, until it was burned to ashes. 
Lot and his two daughters were 
saved, but Lot's wife was turned into 
a pillar of salt, because she looked 
back at the burning city. This the 
angels had warned them not to do. 




LOT ENTERING ZOAR. 



THE FINDING OF MOSES. 

In time there came to be so many 
Israelites in Egypt that Pharaoh be- 
gan to be afraid of them. So he issued 
an order that all boy babies should 
be put to death. But one mother 
hid her baby boy three months. 
Then she made a little boat out of 
rushes, laid the baby in it, and put 
the boat in the water near the shore. 
A little while after she did this one 
of Pharaoh's daughters came down 
to the river to bathe and saw the little 
boat. She had one of her maids wade 
out and get it. When she saw the 
little boy, she felt so sorry for him 
that she took him for her own son. 
She named him Moses, which means 
" drawn out of the water." 




THE FINDING OF MOSES. 



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THE FLIGHT FROM EGYPT. 

Pharaoh made the Israelites work 
very hard and treated them cruelly 
in other ways. God was sorry for 
his people, so he came to Moses and 
told him to go to Pharaoh with his 
brother Aaron and order him to let 
the Israelites go away from Egypt 
to a land He had made ready for 
them. But Pharaoh did not care 
anything about what God told him 
to do and would not let the people 
go. So God sent dreadful plagues 
upon the Egyptians. Still Pharaoh 
was stubborn and held out against 
God until the tenth plague came, 
which killed the eldest child in 
every Egyptian house. Then he 
sent the Israelites out of the land. 




SPRINKLING THE BLOOD. 



MOSES STRIKING THE ROCK. 

After the Israelites had been away 
from Egypt quite a long time, they 
came into a dry, stony country called 
the Wilderness, where there were no 
springs of water and no rivers. They 
got very thirsty, but could find noth- 
ing anywhere to drink. This made 
them angry with their leader, Moses, 
so anrgy that they were going to 
stone him to death. But Moses asked 
God to help him, saying: "What 
shall I do unto this people? they be 
almost ready to stone me." God told 
him to take his rod and strike a cer- 
tain rock on Mount Horeb. Moses 
did so. At once a clear stream of 
water burst out of the rock, enough 
for all the people. 




si RIKING THE R( >('K. 



THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 

When the Israelites came near 
Mount Sinai, God said that in three 
days from that time he would come 
down upon the mountain. But none 
of the people except Moses and 
Aaron were to touch the mountain. 
If they did, they would die. They 
could come up into the mountain and 
be with Him. God did as he prom- 
ised. There was a thick cloud all 
about Him, and fire and smoke, and 
thunder and lightning's, so the people 
could not see him. And the mount- 
ain shook and the voice of God was 
heard like the sound of a trumpet, 
giving to them the Ten Command- 
ments. And the people were afraid 
and drew back from the mountain. 




THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 



BEZALEEL AND AHOLIAB. 

After God had given the Ten Com- 
mandments, Moses went up into the 
mountain and stayed with God forty 
days and forty nights. God told him 
that the Israelites must build Him a 
house to live in which should be 
called "The Tabernacle." They 
must give gold, silver, brass, blue, 
purple, scarlet, fine linen, oils, spices, 
costly woods, jewels and other pre- 
cious things, for this house. Bezaleel 
and Aholiab must build it, because 
He had made them wise. Moses 
told the people what God had said. 
They were so anxious to help that 
they brought more than God had 
asked for. And God's beautiful 
house was soon made. 




BEZALEEL AND AHOLIAB. 



THE BRAZEN SERPENT. 

Once, almost forty years after they 
made God's House, the Israelites were 
very hungry and thirsty. They said 
hateful things about Moses and about 
God too, which was very wicked. So 
God sent fiery serpents to bite the 
people. The bite was poisonous, and 
many died. Then they knew this 
was because they had done wrong'. 
They came to Moses and asked him 
to pray God to take the serpents 
away. Moses prayed. God told 
Moses to make a brass serpent and 
set it on a pole where all the people 
could see it. When Moses had done 
this he told the people to look. Every 
one who was bitten was made well as 
soon as he saw the brass serpent. 




THE BRAZEN SERPENT. 



THE PASSAGE OF THE 

JORDAN. 

After Moses died Joshua led the 
people of Israel. They had come 
very near to the land God had made 
readv for them, hut there was still 
the great river Jordan to cross. They 
did not know how to get across, for 
the water was deep and they had no 
boats. But God had a way for them. 
He told Joshua to have the priests of 
his Tabernacle go into the water first 
and stand there. As soon as the feet 
of the priests touched the water it 
stopped flowing' from above and piled 
up in a great heap. So the people 
went across the Jordan on dry land. 
After the priests left the river, the 
water flowed just as it had before. 




CROSSING I'HK JORDAN. 



THE CAPTAIN OF THE LORD'S 

HOST. 

When the Canaanites heard how 
the Israelites had crossed the Jordan, 
they were afraid and shut themselves 
up in their city, Jericho. The Israel- 
ites had to find some way to break into 
the city. One day when Joshua was 
walking near the wall of Jericho, he 
saw a man with a drawn sword in his 
hand. He at once asked the man 
whether he was a friend or an enemy. 
The man answered : "As captain of the 
host of the Lordamlnow come." Then 
Joshua knew it was an angel and 
fell down and worshiped him. The 
angel said: "Loose thy shoe from off 
thy foot, for the place whereon thou 
standest is holy." Joshua did so. 




THE CAPTAIN OF THE LORD'S HOST. 



HOW JERICHO WAS 
CAPTURED. 

The Israelites took Jericho in a 
very curious way. Every day for six 
days the armed men inarched around 
the city once. On the seventh day 
they marched around seven times, 
while the priests blew their trumpets. 
Just as they finished the last march, 
the trumpets gave a long- blast and 
all the people together gave a mighty 
shout. Then that strong-, high wall 
fell down flat, and they went in and 
took the city and burnt it and every- 
thing in it except the silver and gold 
and vessels of brass and iron. The 
rest of the people of Canaan were 
greatly surprised when they heard 
how Jericho was captured. 




THE FALL OF JERICHO. 



ACHAN'S SIN. 

Ai was a city not far from Jericho. 
Three thousand Israelites went to take 
it. But some were killed and the rest 
got frightened and ran away . Joshua 
felt so badly that he went and told 
God all about it God said that the 
Israelites had been beaten because one 
of them had kept for his own some of 
the silver and gold taken from Jeri- 
cho. God pointed out th at Achan was 
the man who had stolen these things 
and that he had hidden them in his 
tent. When they looked in the tent 
they found them buried in the ground. 
Achan and all his family and all that 
he had were stoned and burned and 
a great heap of stones raised over 
them as a warning. 




ACHAN CONFESSING HIS SIN. 



THE ALTAR ON MOUNT EBAL. 

After Achan had been burned, the 
Israelites captured Ai and hanged its 
king- on a tree. Then Joshua built 
an altar to God on Mou nt Ebal of whole 
stones that had never been cut. On 
the altar he put burnt offerings. On 
the stones of the altar he wrote the 
laws that Moses had given to the peo- 
ple when he was alive. Then he got 
all the people together, men, women 
and little ones, and read to them God's 
promises of the good things that would 
happen to them if they did right, and 
the bad things that would happen if 
they did wrong. The people listened 
carefully to the reading. Joshua did 
this because he had promised Moses 
that he would just before he died. 







THE ALTAR ON MOUNT EBAL. 



THE CITIES OF REFUGE. 

In those old times, when one man 
killed another, the friends of the dead 
man had the right to kill the mur- 
derer. But sometimes it happened 
that one person killed another with- 
out meaning- to do it. Of course it was 
not right that he should be killed for 
what he could not help. God saw that 
there ought to be some way of saving 
him. So he told Joshua to name six 
cities to which such a person could flee 
and where no one could touch him. 
These cities were called Cities of Ref- 
uge. Three of them were on the west 
side of Jordon and three on the east. 
Some say that all the guide posts 
along the way had "Refuge!" "Ref- 
uge!" written on them. 




ill! tNG TO THE tl IV uk REFUGE. 



THE DEATH OF JOSHUA. 

A long time after the fall of Jericho, 
when Joshua was an old man, he made 
all the Israelites come into one place 
so that he could talk to them, before 
he left them, forever. He asked them 
to count over the good things God had 
done for them, and promised that He 
would do even more for them than He 
had already. He told them to be 
brave, to do as Moses had wanted them 
to do when he was alive, and never 
to have anything to do with people 
who worshiped idols. If they did, 
God would punish them. When 
Joshua had instructed the Israelites 
in all the good ways, having said all 
that was on his mind, he died He 
was one hundred and ten years old. 




JOSHUA EXHORTING THE PEOPLE. 



GIDEON AND THE FLEECE. 

After Joshua died, the Israelites for- 
got God and worshiped idols. So God 
punished them as Joshua said . The 
Midianites came into the land and 
the Israelites had to hide from them 
in dens and caves. Gideon, a mighty 
man, wasthreshing corn oneday when 
an angel came to him and told him to 
go and save Israel. Gideon was will- 
ing to go, but asked God to show him 
some sign that he would beat the Midi- 
anites. So one night God made a 
fleece that Gideon put on the ground 
wet with dew while all the ground was 
dry, and the next night he kept the 
fleece dry while all the ground was 
wet. Then Gideon knew that God 
would be ou his side. 




EXAMINING THE FLEECE. 



THE DEFEAT OF THE MIDI- 
ANITES. 

Gideon got together a large army, 
but God told him that only a part must 
fight. So Gideon picked out the three 
hundred bravest men and divided 
them into three coinpaniesof onehun- 
dred each, and put a trumpet in each 
man's hand and an empty pitcher and 
a lamp inside the pitcher. About the 
middle of the night they came to the 
camp of the Midianites and blew 
the trumpets and broke the pitchers 
and held up the lamps and cried "The 
sword of the Lord and of Gideon." 
The Midianites were afraid and ran 
about and cried out and killed one an- 
other. The Israelites ran after them 
and drove them out of the country. 




THE SWORD OF THE LORD, AND OF GIDEON. 



THE DEATH OF SAMSON. 

Samson was the strongest man that 
ever lived. At one tiaie he tore a live 
lion apart with his hands, at another 
he killed one thousand men, and at 
another he carried away the gates of 
Gaza, a city of the Philistines. But 
the very last thing that he did was 
the most wonderful of all. The Phil- 
istines had cruelly put out his eyes. 
At a feast where there were over three 
thousand of them, Samson got a boy 
to show him the way, and then putting 
his hands upon two pillars that held 
up the roof, and praying God for 
help, he pressed upon them with all 
his might. The pillars broke, the 
roof fell. Samson himself and the 
Philistines were killed. 




SAMSON AND THE PHILISTINES. 



RUTH AND NAOMI. 

Naomi's home was at Bethlehem. 
But one year, because there was 110 
food there, she went to Moab with her 
husband and her two sons. Both the 
sons took wives in Moab. The wives' 
names were Orpah and Ruth. After a 
little time Naomi's husband died, then 
both the sons. Naomi started to go 
back to Bethlehem, and Orpah and 
Ruth started with her. But Naomi 
did not think they ought to leave 
their homes and advised them to stay 
in Moab. Orpah stayed. But Ruth 
said to Naomi: "Whither thou goest, 
I will go, and where thou lodgest I 
will lodge; thy people shall be my 
people and thy God, my God." So 
Ruth and Naomi came to Bethlehem. 




RUTH AND NAOMI. 



BOAZ AND RUTH. 

Ruth and Naomi were poor. So 
Ruth went out to pick up the grain 
which the reapers let fall at their 
work. The field into which she went 
belonged to a rich man named Boaz. 
He was pleased with Ruth, and let her 
eat and drink with the reapers. He 
told her never to go anywhere else, 
but always to come to his field, and 
he made the reapers let fall some 
grain on purpose for her. So when 
she came home to Naomi at night, she 
had a very large bundle. Ruth went 
to that field all through the harvest. 
Afterward she became the wife of 
Boaz. 

So you see Ruth did not lose 
anything by staying with Naomi. 




HOAZ SHOWIXd KINDNESS TO KITH. 



ELI AND SAMUEL. 

Once a year Samuel's mother went 
to see him and always took with her 
a little coat. One night, when Samuel 
was asleep, he heard his name spoken. 
He thought Eli called him, and ran 
to see what he wanted. But Eli said 
he had not called him. So he went 
back to bed. Again he heard "Sam- 
uel," and again he ran to Eli. But 
Eli had not called him. Still again 
he was called and ran to Eli. Then 
Eli knew that God had spoken and 
told him to say, "Speak, Lord, for 
thy servant heareth," next time he 
was called. Samuel did this, and 
God told him of something terrible 
that was going to happen to Eli 
and his sons. 




SA.MIU. AND ELI. 



DEATH OF ELI AND HIS 

SONS. 

A little while after God spoke to 
Samuel, the Israelites fought against 
the Philistines. They were beaten. 

Then they took the ark of God from 
the tabernacle and marched against 
the Philistines. At first the Philistines 
were afraid of the ark. But they 
fought bravely. The Israelites were 
again beaten. Eli's two sons were 
killed and the ark of God was taken. 
Eli was then ninety-eight years old. 
He was blind. He was sitting on a 
bench by the roadside when he heard 
the sad news. He was so overcome 
by the intelligence he fell over back- 
ward and brake his neck. That was 
what God told Samuel would happen. 




KM RECEIVING THE NEWS OF THE DEATH OF HIS SON^. 



PLAYING ON THE HARP 
BEFORE SAUL. 

Saul was the king of Israel. David 
was a shepherd boy, the son of Jesse. 
He had a happy, ruddy face that made 
everybody like him. Besides he was 
very brave. Once he killed both a 
lion and a bear that came to eat up the 
lambs in his father's flock. He knew 
how to throw stones with a sling and 
could play on the harp beautifully. 
One day King Saul was feeling very 
sad and wanted somebody to play to 
him. He thought music would make 
him feel better. His servants told him 
about David. So he sent for him. 
David came and played so nicely on 
the harp that Saul forgot all about 
his trouble. 




DAVID PLAYING ON THE HARP BEFORE SAUL. 



DAVID AND GOLIATH. 

The Israelites and Philistines were 
at war. Goliath was a Philistine 
giant. He used to come out in front 
of the Israelites every day and dare 
any one to fight with him. He was 
so big and strong that all the Israelites 
were afraid to try. One day David 
came to the camp on an errand, and 
when he saw Goliath he made up his 
mind to fight him. So he chose five 
smooth stones out of a brook and put 
them in his shepherd's bag. Then 
with sling in hand he went toward 
Goliath. Goliath laughed at him, but 
David did not mind that. He threw 
a stone with his sling. It hit Goliath 
on the forehead and he fell to the 
ground. Then David cut off his head. 




DAVID. 



DAVID AND ARAUNAH. 

David was not a bad man, but he 
sometimes did wrong and then God 
had to punish him although He was 
very fond of him. When he had been 
king many years he had the Israelites 
counted. This displeased God and He 
sentaplagueuponlsrael. Thisplague 
killed many thousand people. David 
felt very sorry to have his people die 
for his sin and prayed God to stop 
the plague and punish him instead. 
God told David to go to the threshing- 
floor of Araunah and make an offer- 
ing. David went. He bought the 
threshing-flooor and some oxen and 
wood. Then he built an altar and 
made the offering. God stopped the 
plague. 




DAVID AND ARAUNAH. 



ELIJAH FED BY RAVENS. 

Ahab was a very wicked king, more 
wicked than any that came beforehim. 
He took a wife who worshiped idols 
and bnilt an altar to a heathen god 
and worshiped this god. So God 
sent Elijah to Ahab to say to him: 
"As the Lord of Israel liveth there 
shall not be dew nor rain these years." 
Ahab was so angry at Elijah that he 
had to flee and hide himself by the 
brook Cherith near the river Jordan. 
The brook gave him all the water he 
needed, but there was no food there. 
But God would not let his prophet 
starve- He sent ravens to feed him. 
These ravens brought him bread and 
meat twice every day ; in the morn- 
ing and in the evening. 




ELIJAH FED BY RAVENS. 



ELIJAH AND ELISHA. 

One day Elijah was traveling 
through the land, when he saw twelve 
men ploughing with twelve yoke of 
oxen. One of these men was Elisha. 
When Elijah saw Elisha, he knew 
that he was the man God wished him 
to take for a servant. So Elijah 
threw his coat on Elisha as he went 
by. Then Elisha ran after Elijah 
and said: " Let me, I pray thee, kiss 
my father and mother and then I 
will follow thee." He killed a yoke 
of oxen and made a feast. Then he 
said good-by to his father and mother 
and went away with Elijah. After- 
ward God took Elijah up to Heaven 
in a chariot of fire. Elisha was with 
him at the time. 




PLOUGHING IN CANAAN. 



THE SHUNAMMITE'S SON. 

A kind Shunammite woman who 
liked Elisha made for him a little 
chamber on the wall. She made it 
cosey with a bed and table and stool 
and candlestick. Elisha used to come 
to this little room when he got tired. 
Now this good woman had a little boy 
whom she dearly loved, for he was her 
z^j child. One morning- the little 
fellow was running about in the field 
with the reapers. All at once he felt 
a pain and ran to his father, crying, 
"My head! my head!" When the 
father saw his little son was not feel- 
ing well, he had him taken home to 
his mother. She held him in her lap 
till noon. Then he died. Elisha 
brought him back to life. 




THE SHUNAMMITE S SON RESTORED. 



THE LITTLE CAPTIVE MAID. 

Naaman was a great Syrian general, 
w ho had beaten the Israelites in bat- 
tle. He was very wretched because 
he was a leper. Now Naaman's wife 
had a little Israelite girl to wait upon 
her, who had heard of the wonderful 
things Elisha had done. This little 
girl had told her mistress that Elisha 
could cure Naaman. So Naainan 
went with his chariot and horses to 
see Elisha. Elisha told him to wash 
seven times in the river Jordan. 
Naaman would not do this at first, it 
seemed such a little thing. But 
he finally changed his mind, and 
washed in the Jordan and was cured. 
You see how much good one little 
girl can do. 




THE LITTLE CAPTIVE MAID. 



JONAH AT NINEVEH. 

God told Jonah to go to Nineveh 
and warn the people that their city 
would be destroyed because they were 
so wicked. But Jonah ran away to 
sea. There was a terrible storm on 
the sea, and the sailors threw Jonah 
overboard. They thought he was 
the cause of the storm. But he was 
not drowned, for God sent a great fish 
to swallow him. Jonah was inside 
the fish three days and three nights. 
Then God made the fish throw Jonah 
up on the dry land. After this 
God sent Jonah to Nineveh. But 
the people were so sorry for their 
sins that He took pity on them and 
did not destroy the city. 





JONAH AT NINEVEH. 



HEZEKIAH AND SENNA- 
CHERIB. 

Hezekiah was the best king- Judah 
ever had. The Bible says no king 
ever served God so well. When Heze- 
kiah had been king fourteen years, 
Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, 
marched against Jerusalem. He sent 
a letter to Hezekiah, telling him to 
give up the city because his God could 
not help him. Hezekiah took this 
letter up into the temple. He spread 
it out before God and prayed Him 
to save Jerusalem. God heard his 
prayer. That night His angel went 
into the Assyrian camp and killed one 
hundred and eighty-five thousand 
of the Assyrians. Soon after this 
Sennacherib's two sons killed him. 




HF.ZF.KIAH LAYING THE LETTER BEFORE <.<>!>. 



THE BRA YE HEBREW BOYS. 

Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and 
Azariah were four Hebrew boys who 
were prisoners at Babylon. They 
thought it was wrong to eat the meat 
and drink the wine the king sent, 
and refused both when offered them. 
They asked for plain food and pure 
water instead. But the servant was 
afraid they would grow thin if he 
gave them nothing else. Then the 
king would be angry at him and he 
would lose his life. Daniel told him 
to give them plain food and water 
for ten days. He did so. At the end 
of the ten days they seemed so much 
better than those who ate the meat 
and drank the wine that the servant 
was glad to do as they wished. 



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DANIEL AND THE LIONS. 

When Darius was king at Babylon 
he liked Daniel so well that he made 
him the chief officer in his kingdom. 
This made the other officers hate Dan- 
iel. They got Darius to make a law 
that every man who prayed to any 
one except Darius himself should be 
thrown into the den of lions. Daniel 
kept on praying to his God three times 
a day. When Darius heard that Dan- 
iel prayed he was very sorry he had 
made the law. But he could not 
change it, so Daniel was thrown into 
the lions' den. That night Darius 
could not sleep, he felt so bad. Yery 
early next morning he ran to the 
den. But Daniel was safe, for God 
had shut the lions' mouths. 




DANIEL AND THE LIONS. 



ESTHER BEFORE THE KING. 



Ahasuerus was king of Persia. 
Esther, a Jewess, was his queen. 
Haman was next to the king-. He 
was a cruel man, and hated the Jews 
because one of them, a servant of the 
king, would not bow down to him. 
So he got the king to make a law that 
all the Jews in his kingdom should 
be killed. Esther felt very sorry for 
her people. She made up her mind to 
save them if she could. But first she 
spent three days in fasting and prayer. 
Then she went to the king and beg- 
ged him to save the Jews. The 
king loved Esther so much that he 
did what she asked. So the Jews 
were saved from the cruel decree of 
the king Ahasuerus. 




ESTHER BEFORE THE RING. 



DAVID AND JONATHAN. 

Saul loved David at first. Then lie 
hated him and tried to kill him twice 
by throwing- his spear at him. David 
escaped and hid himself. Now Saul 
had a son named Jonathan, who 
thought a great deal of David. It 
made him feel very bad to see his 
father trying to kill him. Jonathan 
thought that Saul night get over his 
anger in two or three days and take 
David back. But when he was sure 
that Saul really meant to kill David, 
he went to his hiding place : nd 
told him how he might get away. 
After they had wept and kissed each 
other and promised always to be 
friends, David fled and Jonathan 
went back to his father. 




DAVID AND JONATHAN. 




THE BIRTH OF CHRIST. Matt. ii. I. 



THE BIRTH OF CHRIST. 

One night certain shepherds 
were out in the fields taking* care 
of their sheep. Suddenly they 
saw a light brighter than the sun, 
and in the glory of the light, an 
angel. They felt afraid. 

But the angel spoke to them; 
he said: " Fear not. I have good 
news for you, and for all the peo- 
ple in the world. There was born 
to-day, in the city of Bethlehem, 
a little child who is to be a 
Saviour; his name is Christ the 
Lord. You will find him lyino* in 
a manger." As he spoke, suddenly 
there appeared a great company of 
angels, and they sang: "Glory to 
God in the highest, and on earth, 
peace, good-will toward men." 



When the angels were gone back 
to Heaven, the shepherds said to 
one another: "Let us go right 
away to Bethlehem, and find this 
wonderful baby that the Lord has 
sent us word about." 

So they started in haste. When 
they reached Bethlehem, they found 
the stable, and the manger, and 
there was the baby with his mother. 
Then the shepherds told what the 
angels had said and sung. The peo- 
ple wondered at it; the mother re- 
membered every word, and thought 
about what it all meant. Then the 
shepherds went back to their work 
praising God as they went, for all 
that he had told them, and for all 
that they had seen. 



THE CHILDHOOD OF JESUS. 

The child Jesus grew strong in 
body and mind. He was so unlike 
any other child that he was "filled 
with wisdom." God's favor was 
with him all the time. When he 
was twelve years old he went with 
his father and mother to Jerusalem 
to the great yearly feast called the 
Passover. Having been there eight 
days, they started for home. But 
Jesus stayed behind at Jerusalem. 
His father and mother didn't know 
it; they supposed him to be with 
some of the friends. At night when 
they stopped to rest, they found he 
was not to be found. They went 
among the friends and acquaintances 
who were travelling with them, but 



they got no news of him; so they 
turned back toward Jerusalem, look- 
ing for him all the way. In this 
way three days passed ; then they 
found their son sitting in the church 
among the learned men, listening 
and asking questions. And the 
people who listened were astonished 
at the questions which Jesus asked, 
and at the words which he spoke. 
When his parents saw him, they 
were very much astonished. His 
mother said to him: "My son, why 
did you treat us in this way ? Your 
father and I have hunted for you in 
great sorrow." 

Then he made this strange an- 
swer: "How is it that you sought 
me? Didn't you know that I must 
be about my Father's business ? " 




the child jesus. — Luke ii. 40. 



They didn't understand what he 
meant; they forgot that their son 
was not simply a boy; he was God. 
But he came at once from the church, 
and went home with them, and 
obeyed his father and mother in 
everything. But his mother never 
forgot any of the strange words that 
he spoke. 



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MINISTRY OF JOHN THE 

BAPTIST. 

When Jesus had grown to he a 
young- man, there came a minister 
through the country ahout Jordan, 
preaching* to the people that they re- 
pent and be baptized. Some thought 
he. was the Christ for whom they had 
been waiting. But he said to them: 
"I baptize you with water, but 
there is coining one, so much might- 
ier than I, that I am not even worthy 
to untie his shoes [this was the work 
of the lowest servant] ; He will bap- 
tize you with the Holy Ghost and 
with fire. He will make clean the 
hearts of his people. He will gather 
them in as wheat is gathered into the 
garner. But the wicked will be like 



chaff which is burned up, with a fire 
that cannot be put out. Many other 
solemn things, also, this minister 
preached to the people. Aman named 
Herod, ruler over part of the country, 
was angry with John because he had 
been reproved for many sins, among 
them marrying a woman whom he 
had no right to marry; and he put 
John in prison. But before that 
happened, one day, when John had 
been preaching and baptizing many 
people, Jesus came, and asked to be 
baptized also ; and as he was praying, 
a wonderful thing happened. The 
Holy Ghost came down out of heaven 
in the form of a dove, and rested on 
Jesus, and a voice out of heaven said: 
"Thou art my beloved son; in thee I 
am well pleased." 



JESUS AT NAZARETH. 

We find Jesus to-day in Nazareth, 
where he lived in his boyhood. It is 
the Sabbath-day, and he has gone to 
church, and stands reading to the peo- 
ple from the Bible. He read in the 
book named Isaiah ; read about him- 
self. These are the words: "The 
Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because 
He hath anointed me to preach the 
gospel to the poor; He hath sent me 
to heal the broken-hearted, to preach 
deliverance to the captives, and re- 
covering of sight to the blind, to set 
at liberty them that are bruised, to 
preach the acceptable year of the 
Lord." When he had read these 
wonderful words he closed the book, 
and gave it to the minister, and sat 



down. All the people looked at him, 
wondering what he would say. Then 
he began to talk. He told them that 
the promises he had been reading to 
them were fulfilled. All listened 
and wondered at the tender and 
beautiful words that he spoke. They 
whispered to each other, saying, 
"Isn't this Joseph's son ? " Then he 
said to them: "You will surely re- 
mind me of the proverb, 'Physician, 
heal thyself.' Do some of the won- 
lerful things here that we have 
eard of you doing in Capernaum. 
But, remember, no prophet is highly 
thought of in his own country. Re- 
member that during that time of 
famine in Israel, when it didn't rain 
for three years and six months, there 
were many widows, but the prophet 




JE>IS IN' THE TEMPLE, READING THE BIBLE. Luke iv. l6. 



Elijah was sent only to one at Sa- 
repta, a city of Sidon. And there 
were many lepers in Israel while the 
prophet Elisha lived there ; but Na- 
aman, the Syrian, was the only one 
that was cured." 

This preaching made the people 
angry, and they started up in wrath 
and thrust him out of their city, and 
wanted to push him headlong down 
the hill on the top of which Naza- 
reth was built. But just there he 
showed his power, in passing quietly 
through the crowd of angry people, 
holding them back by the power of 
his gaze, and went away. 



THE DRAUGHT OF FISHES. 

Jesus stood by the shore of Lake 
Geimesaret, and the people pressed 
about him, to hear him talk about 
God. He saw two ships near the 
water ; they were empty, for the fish- 
ermen to whom they belonged were 
gone to wash their nets. One of the 
ships belonged to a man named Si- 
mon. Jesus stepped into it, and 
when Simon came asked him to push 
out a little from the shore ; then he 
sat down in the ship and taught the 
people. When the sermon was over 
he said to Simon : " Push out now 
where it is deep, and let down your 
net." Simon answered: "We have 
been at work all night, Master, and 
have caught no fish; but we will do 



as you say." So they let down the 
net into the water, and at once it be- 
came so full of fish that it began to 
break. Then Simon and the other 
fisherman called to their partners, 
who were in the other ship, to come 
and help. They came and filled both 
the ships with fish; then the ships 
began to sink. Simon Peter, seeing 
that, fell on his knees and began to 
pray; he said: "Depart from me, 
for I am a sinful man, O Lord." He 
meant that he was not worthy to be 
near the Lord. He was astonished 
and frightened, and so were the 
others — James and John, and they 
were the sons of Zebedee. Jesus 
spoke kindly and tenderly to Simon ; 
he said: "Fear not; after this you 
shall catch men." 



THE CENTURION'S FAITH. 

Next we find Jesus at Capernaum. 
A certain Roman military officer 
lived there, who had a servant lying 
very sick. The officer loved his 
faithful servant. He saw that he 
was going to die. He had heard of 
Jesus, and he sent some of the elders 
to him, begging that he would 
come and cure the sick man. The 
messengers came to Jesus and urged 
him to go at once to the sick one ; 
they told him how kind the officer 
had been to their people. He went 
with them. When they were near 
the house, other friends came out to 
meet the Saviour, and presently the 
officer came himself. He told Jesus 
that he did not feel himself worthy 




THE CENTURION. — Matt. viii. R. 



to have so great a man in his house; 
that he did not want to trouble him 
to go there, and at first he thought 
he ought not even to come to him, 
troubling him. He begged that 
Jesus would just then and there 
speak a word that should cure his 
servant. He said that he was a man 
in authority, having servants who 
obeyed orders. Jesus, he believed, 
had but to give orders, and his invis- 
ible servants would obey him. Jesus 
wondered at his faith. 

He turned, and said to the people 
who were following : " I haven't 
found such great faith as this in all 
Israel." Some of those who had been 
sent to Jesus, now reached the house 
where the sick man had lain, and 
behold he was well ! This story is 
also told in Matthew viii. 5-13. 



THE WIDOW OF NAIN. 

Once Jesus went to the city of 
Nain. His disciples went with him. 
Many people followed him. As he 
reached the city gate he met a 
funeral procession. It was a long 
procession, for the young man who 
Avas dead had been his mother's only 
son, and she was a widow. The 
people were very sorry for her. 
Jesus, when he saw her, felt very 
sorry for her, too. He spoke to her. 
He said, "Weep not." Then he 
went towards the frame on which 
the dead body was laid, and touched 
it; and the men who were carrying- 
it stood still, and Jesus spoke to the 
dead. He said, "Young: man, I say 
unto thee, arise." Immediately the 



dead man sat up and spoke to Jesus; 
and Jesus called his mother to him. 
This wonderful thing made the peo- 
ple afraid ; they said, " A great 
prophet has come among us." And 
they praised God for sending him. 
This story was told all over the coun- 
try, and for many miles around. 
When the people came together they 
said, " Have you heard how that 
poor widow who lives in Nain had 
her son given back to her after he 
was dead ? " 




JESUS RAISETH THE WIDOW'S SON. — Luke vii. 14-15. 



THE FRIEND OF SINNERS. 

Jesus was invited to dine with a 
man named Simon. While at table, 
a poor woman came in and poured 
sweet -smelling- ointment over the 
feet of Jesus, weeping so that she 
washed his feet with her tears. 
Simon did not like this, for the 
woman was very wicked. He 
thought if Jesus were a prophet 
he would know what sort of a 
woman this was, and would not 
allow her to touch him. Jesus saw 
these thoughts in his heart, and told 
him he had something to say to him. 
Then he told him this story : " There 
was once a man who was owed by 
two men ; one owed him five hun- 
dred pence, and the other fifty. 



Both were poor, having nothing with 
which to pay their debt. The good 
man knowing this, forgave them 
both. Tell me, which of them will 
love him most ? " 

"Why," said Simon, "I suppose 
the one who owed the most." 

"Yes," said Jesus, "that is true. 
Simon, do you see this poor woman ? 
You gave me no water to wash my 
feet, but she has washed them with 
her tears, and wiped them with her 
hair. You gave me no kiss, but she 
continues to kiss my feet. You did 
not even anoint my head, but she 
has anointed my feet. Now I tell 
you this : her sins which are many, 
are forgiven, for she loves me very 
much. If people feel that they have 
but little to be forgiven, they have 



but little love." Then lie spoke to 
the woman ; he said : " Your sins 
are forgiven." Those who were sit- 
ting with him at table began to say 
among themselves, " Why, who is 
this man who can forgive sins ? " 
Jesus spoke again to the woman ; he 
said : " Thy faith hath saved thee ; 
go in peace. 






RETURN OF THE SEVENTY. 

Seventy people were sent out in 
many directions to tell the people of 
the Lord Jesus. They had blessed 
meetings. They came back filled 
with joy. They told Jesus that they 
had found even devils who had to 
obey their words when they spoke in 
his name. Jesus told them that he 
had long known that Satan would 
be subject to him. Also he promised 
them that nothing should hurt them 
in their work, neither that serpent 
Satan, nor any of his helpers. But 
he reminded them, that though the> 
had such great power given them, 
there was something better than that 
for them to rejoice over forever: that 
their names were written in heaven. 




AND WHEX YE COME INTO AX HOUSE, SALUTE IT. Matt. X. 12. 



Then Jesus, with great joy in his 
heart, thanked God that he had hid- 
den many things from the worldly- 

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wise and the selfishly prudent, and 
had made them known to the hum- 
ble-hearted who were willing* to be 
like little children and learn of him. 
He reminded his diseiples that no 
man knew about the mysteries of 
God, but that all things were deliv- 
ered to him, and that no one could 
understand the Father unless he 
made him plain to their hearts. 
And he said to those disciples aside, 
" Blessed are the eyes which see the 
things that you see; many prophets 
and kings desired to see them, but 
were not permitted." 



THE GOOD SAMARITAN. 

A lawyer once asked Jesus avIio 
was his neighbor, and Jesus told him 
this story : — " Once a man went from 
Jerusalem to Jericho, and on the 
road he met a party of thieves. 
They stripped his clothes from him ; 
they wounded him, and at last went 
away, leaving' him lying half dead. 
A little while after a certain minis- 
ter passed that way ; he saw the man, 
but he crossed the street and went 
on. Then there came a Levite ; he 
stopped and looked at the poor man, 
and then he too crossed the street 
ami went on his way. Then there 
came a Samaritan; he stopped and 
looked at the poor man, and his 
heart was filled with pity. The man 



was nothing' to him, not even one of 
his own nation ; but he bound up his 
wounds, pouring oil and wine on 
them to soothe the pain; then he 
lifted the man to his own horse and 
took him to a place where he could 
be cared for. In the morning- before 
he went on his journey, he took from 
his pocket some money, and gave it 
to the host, and asked him to have the 
sick man taken care of. If he had 
to spend money, when he came that 
way again he would pay the bill." 

" Now," said Jesus, " which of these 
three people do you think treated the 
poor man like a neighbor ? " 

" Why," said the lawyer, " the one 
who took care of him." 

" Then," said Jesus, " see that you 
follow his example." 



IMPORTUNITY IN PRAYER. 

At one time when Jesus was with 
his disciples they asked him to teach 
them to pray. Having talked with 
them about the Lord's Prayer, he il- 
lustrated prayer by the following*: 

Said he: "Suppose you had a 
friend to whom you should go one 
night at midnight, and ask him to 
lend you three loaves of bread, for a 
friend had arrived unexpectedly, and 
you had nothing for him. Suppose 
he should answer, 'Don't trouble me; 
I've shut my house for the night, and 
my children and I are in bed ; I can't 
get up and attend to you.' Now I 
tell you, though he wouldn't attend 
to you on account of friendship, yet 
if you persist in urging your need he 




SECRET PRAYER. Matt. VI. 6. 



will get up and give you what you 
want. Now I say to you : ask and 
it shall he given you; seek and ye 
shall find; knock and it shall he 
opened unto you. Every one that 
asks shall receive; he who seeks 
shall find; to him who knocks it 
shall be opened. Suppose your son 
asks for a piece of bread, would you 
give him a stone? Suppose he asks 
for a fish, would you give him a ser- 
pent? If he ask for an egg, would 
you give him a scorpion? Now, if 
you with evil hearts and ignorant 
minds, yet know enough to take 
care of your children and give them 
proper things, don't you suppose that 
your Heavenly Father knows what 
you need, and will give the Holy 
Spirit to those who ask him ? 



WARNING 
AGAINST COYETOUSNESS. 

Jesus had been talking about the 
loving care of the Heavenly Father, 
and one of the listeners interrupted 
him with a request that he would 
talk to his brother and get him to 
divide equally between them the 
property that had been left. Jesus 
asked him who he thought made him 
a judge, or a divider over them; and 
then, by the story he told them, he 
showed the covetous thought that 
was in the man's heart. He reminded 
them that the important thing in a 
man's life was not to have a great 
deal of property. Said he: "There 
was a certain man who grew rich; 
his harvests were so great that he 



wondered what he should do with 
all his grain. At last he decided to 
pull down his barns and build larger 
ones, and then say to his soul, ' Soul, 
you have plenty of food, enough to 
last you many years ; take your ease, 
eat, drink and be merry.' But just 
then God spoke to him ; He said, 
'Foolish man, this night your soul 
shall be called to leave the body; 
then who will have all these thing's 
which you have provided ? ' — Now," 
said Jesus, "the man who plans for 
himself, laying up treasures for him- 
self, and has none of the riches that 
God could give him, is like this poor, 
foolish man in the story." Then He 
turned to His disciples and told them 
that living meant more than simply 
keeping the body alive and clothed. 



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WARNING 
AGAINST FORMALISM. 

Jesus was traveling through the 
cities and villages on his way to 
Jerusalem, teaching as he went. One 
day a man asked him if many would 
he saved. He said all must strive 
to enter in at the straight gate, for 
many would try some other way and 
would not get in. He said, "It was 
like a feast spread for guests ; and 
when once the master of the house 
had closed the door, no more could 
get in. Those who stood outside 
saying, ' Lord, Lord, open the door 
for us,' would only be answered with 
'I don't know you.' They might 
answer, ' We have eaten and drank 
with you, and you have taught in 



our streets,' for some of these people 
who would not follow Jesus had sat 
at table with him and heard his 
teachings. But he said the answer 
to any such would be, ' I don't know 
you ; go away, you are wicked peo- 
ple.' — Then," said Jesus, "there shall 
be weeping and gnashing of teeth ; " 
Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob 
would be inside, but those who 
would not come to him by the right 
way would be thrust out. People 
from every quarter shall come to- 
gether and sit down in God's king- 
dom. The Gentiles, who were the 
last to hear the good news, shall be 
among the first in heaven, and some 
of the Jews (God's dear people who 
would not love Him) will not get in. 



THE GOSPEL FEAST. 

One Sabbath-day Jesus was taking 
dinner at the house of a Pharisee. 
He talked with the people at the 
table about humility of manner at the 
great feasts which were given in 
those days. Then one of the com- 
pany said to him, " Blessed is he that 
shall eat bread in the kingdom of 
God." I do not think he meant 
heaven, but rather the kingdom that 
he hoped the Messiah would set up 
on the earth. Jesus answered him 
in the form of a story about a man 
who made a great supper, sending 
out many invitations. When eAd*y- 
thing was ready he sent for his 
guests to come, and every one of 
them sent an excuse. One said he 



had bought a piece of ground and 
must go and see it, and begged to 
be excused ; another said he had 
bought five yoke of oxen., and was 
going to prove them; another said he 
had just been married and couldn't 
come. When the servant came back 
and told his master he was angry. 
He told his servants to go out quickly 
through the streets and bring all the 
lame people, and the blind people, 
and the poor people of every sort. 
So the servant did as he was told; 
but he said to his master, " There is 
room yet." So the master told him to 
go out in the highways and hedges, 
and coax people to come to the sup- 
per, and fill the house, for none of 
those who were first invited should 
be allowed to taste of the supper. 



THE PRODIGAL SON. 

Jesus once, in teaching the people, 
told this story: "A man had two 
sons ; the younger of them asked his 
father to give him the part of the 
property that would finally belong 
to him. So the father divided his 
wealth between them. A few days 
after that the younger son went a 
long journey, taking all his monej 
with him ; but he wasted it in wild 
and foolish living. When it was all 
gone there came a great famine to 
that country, and the foolish young 
man had nothing to live on. He 
went looking for work, and a man 
hired him to take care of swine. He 
was so hungry that he was willing to 
eat the husks that the swine had for 



food; and no one gave anything* to 
him. Then he began to think of his 
home, and to remember how his 
father's servants had plenty to eat, 
and here he was starving! Then he 
said, 'I will arise and go to my 
father, and I Avill say to him, Father, 
I have sinned against heaven and 
before yon. I am not worthy to be 
called your son; let me be one of 
your hired servants.' So he went on 
his journey home. When he was 
yet a great Avay from the house, his 
father saw him and ran out to meet 
him, and put his arms around him 
and kissed him. Then the son said, 
'Father, I have sinned against heaven 
and against you; I am not worthy to 
be called your son.' But the father 
said, bring the best clothes in the 



house for him to wear, and put a ring 
on his hand, and shoes on his feet, 
and have the fatted calf killed, and 
make a feast, and let us eat and drink 
and be merry; for my son was the 
same to me as dead, and now he is 
alive again; he was lost, but now he 
is found.' And they were merry." 




RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON. — Luke XV. 20. 



THE RICH MAN AND 
LAZARUS. 

In order to explain to his disciples 
that there were two worlds for souls, 
Jesus once told them this story: — 
"There was a rich man who wore 
elegant clothing and lived richly 
every day. There was a poor, sick 
beggar, named Lazarus, lying at his 
gate. He wanted the crumbs which 
were left from the rich man's table. 
His body was full of sores, and the 
dogs used to come and lick them. 
One day this poor man died, but God 
sent his angels and carried him to 
heaven. Then the rich man died, 
and was buried. His soul went to 
hell. One day, while he was in that 
place of pain and torment, he looked 




LAZARUS AT THE RICH MAN'S DOOR. — Luke XVI. 19. 



up, and away off he saw heaven, and 
Lazarus the beggar was there, with 
his head on Abraham's bosom. He 
called to him: 'Father Abraham, 
have mercy on me, and send Lazarus 
to dip the tip of his finger in water 
and cool my tongue, for I am tor- 
mented in this flame,' But Abra- 
ham said: /Son, remember that while 
you were living you had plenty of 
good things, while Lazarus suffered 
at your gate. Now he is happy, and 
you are suffering. And, besides, 
there is a great gulf between you 
and us, so that if we wanted to come 
to you we could not; neither can 
you come here from that place.' 
Then the rich man said, 'I pray you 
send him to my father's house to tell 
my five brothers about this dreadful 



place, so they need not come here.' 
But Abraham said, 'Why, they have 
the story of that place. Moses wrote 
about it, and the Prophets wrote 
about it; let them read it.' But the 
rich man said, 'O, Father Abraham, 
if one went back to them from the 
dead, they would repent/ 'No,' said 
Abraham, 'if they will not believe 
God's own word, as Moses and the 
Prophets wrote it in the Bible, 
neither would they believe if one 
went to them from the dead.'" 



THE TEN LEPERS. 

One day Jesus, on his journey to 
Jerusalem, passed through a village 
in Samaria. He saw ten men who 
had the leprosy; they kept away 
from all other people, as the law 
obliged them to. But when they 
saw Jesus, they called out with loud 
voices, "Jesus, Master, have mercy 
on us!" Jesus said to them, "Go 
show yourselves to the priest." This 
was what people who were cured of 
leprosy were obliged to do before 
they could go among the people. 
The priest had to give them a certifi- 
cate to say that they were cured. As 
these ten men turned to go to the 
priest, as Jesus had told them, sud- 
denly they found that they were 




JESUS CURING THE TEN LEPERS. — Luke Xvii. 14. 



well. One of them, as soon as he 
found it out, turned back and fol- 
lowed after Jesus, and when he 
reached him he bowed down at his 
feet, thanking him and praising God. 
He was from a Samaritan village; 
not one of the Lord's chosen people, 
but a Gentile. Jesus said to him, 
"Didn't I cure ten men? Where 
are the nine? Not one of them 
came back to thank me, except this 
Samaritan." Then he said to the 
kneeling man, " Arise, and go on 
your way; your faith hath made 
you whole." 



WHOM THE LORD RECEIVES. 

When Jesus was on earth he met 
some people who thought that they 
were perfect, and they despised other 
people. One day he told them this 
story: "There were two men who 
went to the temple one day to pray. 
One of them was a Pharisee, the 
other a publican. The Pharisee said, 
4 God, I thank thee that I am not 
like other men, extortioners, unjust, 
adulterers, or even as this man be- 
side mo. I fast twice in the week, 
and I give a tenth of all that I have.' 
Then the publican prayed: he did 
not even go close to the holy place : 
he kept his eyes on the ground, and 
lie struck his breast, which was a 
sign of deep humility, as he said, ' God 



be merciful to me, a sinner ' — I tell 
you," said Jesus, "that man went 
back to his home justified, rather than 
the other, for every one who thinks 
too well of himself must be humbled; 
but those who are humble God will 
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little children to come unto me, and 
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THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN. Luke Xviii. IO. 






ZACCHEUS THE PUBLICAN. 

There was a man named Zaccheus, 
a rich man, a tax-gatherer, who 
w anted very mnch to see Jesus. One 
day, when Jesus was passing through 
the city of Jericho, Zaccheus, who 
was a small man and could not see 
over the heads of the crowd who 
were following Jesus, ran ahead of 
them and climbed into a sycamore 
tree. When Jesus reached the tree 
he looked up and said, "Zaccheus, 
make haste and come down; I want 
to go to your house to-day." Then 
Zaccheus hurried down and joyfully 
took Jesus home with hiiu. But the 
people murmured about it; they said, 
"He has gone to visit a wicked man." 
Then Zaccheus talked with Jesus; 




JESUS FORETELLS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE. Matt. XXIV. 2. 



he said to him, " Lord, I inean to 
give the half of all my goods to the 
poor; and if I have taken anything 
from any man wrongfully, I will 
give him back four times as much." 
Then Jesus said to him, " This day 
is salvation come to your house. 
You are a Jew, a son of Abraham; 
you shall have the promised gift." 






JUDAISM OVERTHROWN. 

Jesus, one day, talking with his 
disciples, said to them: "Take care 
that you are not deceived. There 
will be many coming- in my name, 
saying, 'I am Christ, and the end is 
near;' but don't follow after them. 
When you hear of wars and disturb- 
ances, don't be frightened; these 
things must first come, but the end 
is not at once. Nation shall rise 
against nation, and kingdom against 
kingdom, and there shall be great 
earthquakes, and famines, and pes- 
tilences, and fearful sights ; and great 
signs shall there be from heaven: 
and before these come, people will 
persecute you, and put you in pris- 
ons, and you shall be brought before 



kings and rulers, for my name's 
sake. And you will have a chance 
to testify for me ; but you need not 
plan what you shall say, for I will 
give you words that your enemies 
can neither answer nor resist. You 
will be betrayed by parents, brothers, 
relatives and friends, and some of 
you will be put to death; and you 
will be hated by men for my sake; 
but not a hair of your head shall 
perish. Be patient to the end, and 
your souls shall be saved. When 
you see Jerusalem surrounded with 
armies, then know that desolation is 
near. Then let theiu which are in 
Judea flee to the mountains, and let 
them which are in the midst of it 
depart out, and let not them which 
are in the countries enter thereinto." 



THE LORD'S SUPPER. 

It was the evening before Jesus 
was to be crucified that these things 
happened which are in our lesson 
to-day. Jesus sent Peter and John 
to make ready the supper, that they 
might eat it together. He said to 
them: "When you get to the city of 
Jerusalem, a man will meet you, 
carrying a pitcher of water; follow 
him and stop at the same house. 
Tell the man of the house that the 
Master told you to ask him where 
the guest-chamber was in which he 
could eat the Passover with his dis- 
ciples. He will show you a large 
upper room, furnished. In that 
room make all things ready." It all 
happened just as he said, and they 



prepared the supper. When Jesus 
and the twelve disciples sat down 
he said to them, "I have longed 
to eat this Passover with you hefore 
I suffer, for I will not eat of it any 
more until it be fulfilled in the king- 
dom of God." Then he took up the 
cup and gave thanks, and said, "Take 
this and divide it among yourselves, 
for I say unto you, I shall not drink 
of the fruit of the vine until the king- 
dom of God shall come." And he 
took bread and gave thanks, and 
gave the bread to them, saying, 
"This is my body which is given for 
you; do this in remembrance of me." 
After supper he took the cup and 
passed it to them, saying, "This cup 
is the new testament in my blood, 
which is shed for you." 



THE CROSS. 

At the place which is called Cal- 
vary, our Lord was crucified, and on 
the cross with him hung two thieves, 
one on each side. The soldiers divi- 
ded his clothes among them, casting 
lots which should have them. He 
prayed for them all ; he said, "Father, 
forgive them, for they know not 
what they do." The people and the 
rulers stood about him, looking at 
him and mocking. They said, "He 
saved others, let him save himself if 
he is Christ, the chosen one of God." 
And the soldiers also mocked him, 
offering him vinegar to drink, and 
saying to him, "If you are the king 
of the Jews, save yourself." Then 
they wrote on a tablet in Greek, and 



iii Latin, and in Hebrew, "This is 
the King of the Jews," and hung it 
over the cross. One of the thieves 
joined in the mocking, saying, "If 
you are Christ, save yourself and 
us;" but the other thief reproved 
him, asking him if he did not fear 
God, since they were suffering the 
same punishment. "They," he said, 
"deserved their punishment, but the 
other had done nothing wrong." 
Then he spoke directly to Jesus: he 
said, "Lord, remember me when 
thou com est into thy kingdom." 
And instantly Jesus answered him 
in these words, "Verily I say unto 
you. To-day shalt thou dwell with 
me in Paradise." These things hap- 
pened about twelve o'clock. From 
that time until three o'clock the 



earth was dark; the sun hid away. 
When Jesus cried out with a loud 
voice, he said, "It is finished;" and 
then, "Father, into thy hands I 
commit my spirit;" and having said 
this, he died. Just then the veil 
which had always hidden the inner 
temple split in two from top to 
bottom. 



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the crucifixion. — John xix. 25. 



THE WALK TO EMMAUS. 

The third day after Jesus was 
buried, two of his friends walked to 
a village named Emmaus, which was 
about seven miles from Jerusalem. 
As they walked along they talked to- 
gether about the sad things that had 
lately happened. At that moment 

Jesus himself came along and joined 
them, but they did not know him. 
He asked them what it was thev 
were talking about, and why they 
were so sad. One of them, named 
Cleopas, asked him if he was a 
stranger in Jerusalem that he had 
not heard the strange, sad news. 
He asked them, " What news ? " 
And Cleopas answered: "Why, 
about Jesus of Nazareth ; he was a 




JESUS AND THE DISCIPLES AT EMMAUS. Luke Xxiv. 30. 



mighty prophet; his words and his 
deeds were wonderful; but our rulers 
condemned him to death and cruci- 
fied him. We hoped that he was 
the one who was to redeem the peo- 
ple of Israel; but this is the third 
day since these things were done. 
Some women who were at the grave 
this morning, told us a strange story ; 
they say his body is not there, and 
that they saw angels who said that 
he was alive ; and some of our friends 
went to the grave and found that it 
was as the women said, but they did 
not see him." Then Jesus said to 
them: "O what foolish people. How 
slow you are to believe all that the 
prophets wrote about this ! Did they 
not tell that Christ must suffer these 
things and then enter into his glory?" 



Then he began with the books that 
Moses wrote, and explained what he 
and the other writers had said about 
Christ. When they drew near to 
Emmaus the stranger aeted as though 
he Avas going- further, but they begged 
him to stop with them, as the day Avas 
nearly gone. So he stopped with 
them, and as they sat down to the 
table together, suddenly something 
opened their eyes to know that it Avas 
Jesus who sat with them. He took 
some bread and blessed it, and gave 
them some. Then he vanished out 
of their sight. 



THE SAVIOUR'S LAST 

WORDS. 

The disciples and friends of Jesus 
were together talking of him and of 
the wonderful story that he had risen, 
when he appeared to them again and 
talked with them. He reminded 
them that the things which had hap- 
pened were the very ones which he 
had foretold, and which were told in 
the Bible would happen. Then he 
explained the Bible to them and 
gave them wisdom to understand 
what he said. He showed them how 
it was written that Christ would 
come, and suffer and die, and rise 
again on the third day, and that re- 
pentance and forgiveness of sin 
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JESUS APPKARS TO His DISCIPLES. — Luke xxiv »6 



ginning at Jerusalem. Then he told 
them they were the witnesses that 
all these things had taken place. 
Then he assured them that he would 
send to them that which the Father 
had promised they should have, and 
they were to wait in Jerusalem until 
God sent them a special power. 

The last story that we have of the 
life of Jesus on earth was when he 
led his disciples out to Bethany, and, 
lifting up his hands, blessed them, 
and was parted from them and car- 
ried up into Heaven. Then the dis- 
ciples worshiped him and returned 
to Jerusalem with great joy; and 
now they could be found continually 
in the temple, praising and blessing 
God, 



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